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Second Minor Quake In Israel In A Week

November 24, 2007

A minor earthquake was felt throughout Israel early Saturday.

The quake, which occurred at approximately 12:15 a.m., lasted several seconds and was felt across various cities in central Israel as well as in some of its more northerly towns. The quake measured at 4.2 on the Richter scale, and its epicenter was located in central Israel, Army Radio reported.

This is the second earthquake to hit Israel in the past week.

On Monday, two successive earthquakes were felt across most of the country: the first was measured at 3.0 on the Richter scale and the second at 4.2.

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Sex Scandal Hits Atlanta-Area Megachurch

November 21, 2007

The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her.

Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk’s family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.

In truth, this is not the first — or even the second — sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.

The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk’s nephew.

“I am so very sorry for the collateral damage it’s caused our family and the families hurt by the removing of the veil that hid our humanity and our sinfulness,” said D.E. Paulk, who received the mantle of head pastor a year and a half ago.

D.E. Paulk said he did not learn the secret of his parentage until the paternity test. “I was disappointed, and I was surprised,” he said.

Earl Paulk, his brother, Don, and his sister-in-law, Clariece, did not return calls for comment.

A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney’s office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise.

So far no charges have been filed against Earl Paulk. District Attorney Pat Head and GBI spokesman John Bankhead would not comment.

The shocking results of the paternity test are speeding up a transformation already under way in the church after more than a decade of sex scandals and lawsuits involving the Paulks, D.E. Paulk said.

“It was a necessary evil to bring us back to a God-consciousness,” said the younger Paulk, explaining that the church had become too personality-driven and prone to pastor worship.

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Dollar Falls To New Low

November 21, 2007

The dollar may extend its biggest loss in almost two years against the euro on speculation the Federal Reserve needs to keep cutting borrowing costs to prevent the world’s largest economy from slipping into recession.

Reports today are forecast to show an index regarding the U.S. economic outlook fell in October while consumer confidence sank to a two-year low this month. The dollar weakened to a record low against the euro and Swiss franc after the Fed cut its 2008 growth forecast yesterday.

“The trend of a weakening dollar will continue,” said Adam Boyton, a senior currency strategist in New York at Deutsche Bank AG, the world’s largest currency trading bank. “If the Fed doesn’t cut rates next month, the risk of a recession will rise considerably.”

The dollar traded at $1.4841 per euro and 109.97 yen at 7 a.m. in Tokyo. The U.S. currency touched $1.4852 yesterday, the cheapest level since the 13-nation currency started trading in January 1999. The U.S. currency fell 1.2 percent yesterday, the biggest decline since Jan. 23, 2006. The dollar also reached an all-time low of 1.1055 against the Swiss franc. The euro bought 163.16 yen.

The dollar will decline to $1.50 per euro by the end of the year, according to Boyton. Europe’s single currency will trade at $1.45 by year-end, according to the median forecast of 43 analysts and brokerages surveyed by Bloomberg News.

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Kirkwood Professor Makes Push For Atheism

November 21, 2007

An Iowa community college professor is leading an effort to promote atheism and lobby for the removal of religious references from public life.

Lydia Hartunian, an assistant professor of humanities at Kirkwood College, organized a fund-raiser earlier this month in New York that attracted dozens of atheist authors and religious skeptics.

She says that atheism gets a bad reputation and that one misinterpretation people have is that atheists say they know there isn’t a God.

She says that’s an impossible claim to make — and that amethysts simply don’t know there’s a God.

Hartunian says ultimately atheists are skeptics and that “my sense of goodness, of being a good person, are entirely dependent on me.”

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Minor Earthquake Felt Across Israel

November 21, 2007

 A minor earthquake was felt throughout Israel at approximately 11:20 a.m. Tuesday

The quake, which lasted only a few seconds, was measured at 4.2 on the Richter scale and its epicenter was in the Dead Sea, Israel Radio reported. There were no reports of injured or damage.

“The whole house shook. Some things fell from their place,” a caller told Israel Radio.

A Magen David Adom ambulance driver who was in the northern Dead Sea area when the earthquake took place said that the quake had not been felt too strongly, even near its epicenter. “I was on shift with the ambulance. At first there was a small quake and then a larger quake came. It wasn’t very strong but it was enough to be a bit frightening,” he said.

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Russia Readies Nuclear Fuel Bound For Iran

November 18, 2007

Russia on Friday gave the clearest indication yet that it was ready to send uranium to fuel Iran’s first atomic power station, upping the stakes in a diplomatic crisis surrounding Tehran’s nuclear program.

Russia’s state-run nuclear fuel producer said inspectors from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog would later this month start sealing nuclear fuel bound for the Bushehr plant, a major step to shipping the fuel to the Bushehr plant in Iran.

In a report on Iran issued on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had “made arrangements to verify and seal the fresh fuel foreseen (for Bushehr) on Nov. 26, before shipment of the fuel from Russia to Iran”.

Russia has so far given no concrete date for when it will send the nuclear fuel to Bushehr, but says it would be sent six months before the plant’s repeatedly delayed start-up.

According to Russian forecasts, the reactor at the plant could be started up in 2008 and nuclear fuel would have to arrive at the plant six months before that.

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Evangelical Leaders Hope Radical Islam Threat Will Awaken Weary Voters

November 18, 2007

“The war against Islamofascism is in many respects a ‘values issue,’ ” Bauer wrote. “That may seem like an odd statement at first glance, but, as I have often said, losing Western civilization to this vicious enemy would be immoral.”
From one perspective, branding “radical Islam” as a family values issue is yet another example of the broadening of the evangelical agenda. But next November, it also could energize one of the Republican Party’s key voting blocs, much like anti-gay marriage measures did in 2004.
“It’s the ultimate life issue,” said Rick Scarborough, president of the Texas-based conservative Christian group Vision America. “If radical Islam succeeds in its ultimate goals, Christianity ceases to exist.”
That might sound alarmist, but Scarborough’s words illustrate how many conservative Christian leaders view matters of national security as a battle between good and evil - nothing short of a clash of civilizations.

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The Big One Is Due - In Israel

November 18, 2007

Most Israelis can remember a day when their furniture started to shake, and can also take credit for surviving that day with little difficulty. But very few people are in a position to know firsthand the effects of a truly disastrous earthquake, on a magnitude of seven or higher on the Richter scale, as the last recorded such earthquake in Israel occurred in 1033.

And that’s the problem: Geology experts agree that Israel is long overdue for the next “Big One,” and it can happen at any time. This poses a significant threat to population centers in the country, since many buildings in Israel were erected prior to the formulation of earthquake-resistant construction codes. There is also substantial doubt that the codes are being strictly enforced. With the barrage of immediate threats competing for Israelis’ attention - whether terrorism, car accidents, global warming or secondhand smoke - a major earthquake may seem like an improbable, even paranoid fear.

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America’s New Atheists

November 18, 2007

Several books have hit the best-seller lists by preaching that faith is harmful. Has atheism become a new trend in America?

Call it “atheism on the offensive.” The past few years have seen a surge of interest in unbelief. Books on atheism have topped bestsellers lists including The End of Faith by Sam Harris, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens.

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Don’t Forget to Back Up Your Brain - Scientist Thinks He Can

November 18, 2007

As any Baby Boomer will tell you, Americans have more information to cram into their memories than ever. Yet, as we age, our capacity for recall grows weaker.

But what if you could capture every waking moment of your entire life, store it on your computer and then recall digital snapshots of everything you’ve seen and heard with just a quick search?

Renowned computer scientist Gordon Bell, head of Microsoft’s Media Presence Research Group and founder of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, thinks he might be able to do just that.

He calls it a “surrogate memory,” and what he considers an early version of it even has an official name

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